4.4.2 Awareness of
The fact that a situation is about to happen or is happening. Prevention or early intervention is always better than responding to a situation after it has happened. E.g., a young child is crawling with their hands (”spider walking” or “monkey walking”) along the edge of the pool towards the deep end.
If you intervene now and turn the child back to the shallow end or remove them from the water you have “effected a rescue” by your awareness of the potential. Allow the situation to continue and the child reaches the deep end, arms tire and they “drop off” the side – we now have a non-swimmer rescue.
Allow the situation to continue and we may have an unconscious swimmer rescue with CPR required.